1:00 AM,
Aug. 24, 2010

LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson (9), no longer on lockdown, will be allowed to throw for more big plays this season.

Written by

Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - Gary Crowton has been LSU's offensive coordinator since 2007, and the 2010 season will be his first in which he will be working with the same quarterback who started the majority of the games in the previous season.

Junior Jordan Jefferson started 12 of 13 games last year for LSU and would have started them all had he not suffered an ankle injury at Alabama and had to sit out the Louisiana Tech game.

"I know what he can do now," said Crowton, who worked with Matt Flynn as the starter in 2007 and Jarrett Lee in 2008 before Jefferson. "Some of last season was experimenting, wondering how much ...